reliable broadband/wifi around the house

Glover_elbow said:
By a decent asus or nighthawk router the router boxes from sky and virgin are pants. I have a decent asus router and just use the virgin box in modem mode and its rock solid
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I went Nighthawk RAX200, pricey, but full coverage throughout my house, handless contention with the number of devices with ease and reach the back garden too
 
atypical_boro said:
I am actually starting to think the second booster is just causing problems.
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I read that boosters do cause issues because they use different access points. A Mesh gets around that by using the same access point. It might be that your devices are seeing two different networks and switching between the two instead of seeing it as a single network that doesn't need connecting and re-connecting between.
 
boromike85 said:
I read that boosters do cause issues because they use different access points. A Mesh gets around that by using the same access point. It might be that your devices are seeing two different networks and switching between the two instead of seeing it as a single network that doesn't need connecting and re-connecting between.
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Yep, thats starting to occur to me. OK thanks all.
 
I don't think that boosters increase the number of connections you can have to your router. This is often the cause of a lot of wifi problems, too many devices trying to connect using the same router and hitting contention issues, causing time outs on the devices. That's why I went for the Nighthawk
 
BoroMart said:
I don't think that boosters increase the number of connections you can have to your router. This is often the cause of a lot of wifi problems, too many devices trying to connect using the same router and hitting contention issues, causing time outs on the devices. That's why I went for the Nighthawk
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Yeah, but the wallies on the phone at Sky will throw anything at you if it gets you off their back for a fortnight. I didn't really know that about boosters, but they should surely!
 
I imagine routers provided by ISPs everywhere are garbage - they certainly are in the US. I have 2 Asus Black Knight routers configured as a mesh, one in the basement, where the cable comes in and the other in the upstairs bedroom I use as an office. They are hardwired together, as I cabled the house with ethernet when I bought it, but we get wifi coverage everywhere, including the bottom of the garden.
 
NYboro said:
I imagine routers provided by ISPs everywhere are garbage - they certainly are in the US. I have 2 Asus Black Knight routers configured as a mesh, one in the basement, where the cable comes in and the other in the upstairs bedroom I use as an office. They are hardwired together, as I cabled the house with ethernet when I bought it, but we get wifi coverage everywhere, including the bottom of the garden.
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Yeah, think I'm just gonna hardwire some stuff if I stay with Sky. Its not that the signal doesn't reach everywhere, its just that it keeps dropping out and I can't be chewed with it.
 
Whatever you end up doing atypical, ring Sky to complain and ask to be put through to disconnections coz you are so annoyed with your internet. Threaten to leave and they will half your bill for a year. Works every time.
 
Fluffycarpet said:
Whatever you end up doing atypical, ring Sky to complain and ask to be put through to disconnections coz you are so annoyed with your internet. Threaten to leave and they will half your bill for a year. Works every time.
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Yeah cheers, I have actually done that many times. At the moment though I don't want to get tied into a new deal.
 
another big fan of tplink deco mesh wifi. installed & managed nearly ten seperate households now, had no problems at all (except a few sky engineers not understanding them when setting up skyq)
 
Mesh is definitely the way to go, but use something that has a good track record in Wireless - Sky & Virgin use the cheapest hardware they can get hold of in the main and some (not all) of the engineers are just installers and don't understand the tech at all.

I've seen TP-Link Deco working very well, similarly some kit by Google (Nest), Netgear and ASUS.
Not yet used or looked at Nighthawk but it is very highly thought of by gamers - so must be doing something right.
 
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